Saw a picie in one oif the boat mags years ago of a very similar machine pulling Barry Sheene behind it, think it was in Oz, so hardly qualifies as a new boat?
They may look a bit cool, if you like that sort of thing, but I understand that they do not have handed gearboxes so they do not have contra-rotating props.
Therefore, they are pigs to berth one way.
Surely there must be some element of usefulness to get a cool rating, otherwise people will drool over all sorts of piles of engineering rubbish with a nice "skin".
well its too true. it looks sweet and, being into offshore fishing etc, it'd make me look like a pro (if it was being built yet and if i happened to have a few hundred thousand lying around) haha